Abstract

Village is a smallest society region with special characteristic. One of them law aspect which existed and occupied among the society. Criminal case resolution in village has special character whcih is different with existing law concept, but it gave justice for all parties. In this, the writer has interest to discuss resolution of deception and coverup by village officer in Karanggeneng village Karanggeneng sub-district, Lamongan Residence. In this research, the writer used socio-juridical approach. The research was done in Karanggeneng village Karanggeneng sub-district Lamongan residence with data sources consisted of interview, observation, and documentation. For data processing, the writer used qualitative descriptive analysis. From the research, there found that in this case resolution, the village met two parties in a forum and discussed the matter to take decision. In the forum, there reached agreement that as a responsibility, the subject should return the cooperation business unit (KUD) money he was taken in certain amount, especially related with KUD as victimized institution. Village trial led by The Chief of Karanggeneng village was occupied in rule existed in Indonesia. The chief role as the peacemaker judge was stated in Government Law No.72/2005, which stated that in his duty, the chief could do some actions to resolute disputes happened in the village. According to law power theory, the decision taken in resoluting a crime is a correct step. In its practice, the resolution next step was according to the society’s agreement. The writer would like to suggest the police officer to focus on resolution efforts through village court, since there are so many criminal case which actually could be concluded in village level, but waste times in court. The government should apply a rule which legalized resolution in village level since the resolution has high credibility in society, so that it could be made as alternative in various small crime in society.